Each month, the contributions are scored by a panel of judges (5 per category, 2-3 in each are MS experts), and the winners of each category are showered with love and attention from all corners of TechNet.

See the links at the bottom, to find out more about the competition and how to enter.

We have picked the top three highest scored contributions for each category to bestow our awards upon.

The awards are in gold, silver and bronze, the gold obviously being the top winner of the category.

The last column is just a few of the comments judges made during the judging process.

In some cases, we have not obtained permission to use the judges names, so they have been reduced to initials.

My fellow wiki ninjas will be digging deeper into some of these articles in this blog series, so watch out for those.

Starting this month you will notice some articles are marked as failing to meet our minimum bar for quality or content.

Any of our judges can exercise their right to veto an article, if they do not feel it meets minimum requirements for a medal.

When this is the case, we will at least give an indication of the reason, so you understand why.

A big thank you also to the other authors who did not make the top three of each category.

Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.

Ed Price: "Ike, good article! I like the concept of the Case Story, Solution Requirement, and Solution Design! Could benefit from a little more explanation of the code and from a See Also section. Great approach to this article! Check out Peter's alternate solution in the article comments." PG: "This is an unnecessary complex procedure to solve the null import flow. The issue can be simply solved in a 2 step solution with even less code. More details in comment added to article. "

Ed Price: "Another astonishing article from Dan! The visuals tell the story in a clear and engaging way, and every step is described and explained! To top it off, Dan shows it all to you in two videos! Legendary article!" AH: "Its really good article where each step is explained and screenshots are provided, Good amount of details are provided and even has references to the tutorial videos. Pretty good." GO: "This article compliments the one in the SharePoint section"

Ed Price: "Great extension exploration from Sara! Good use of images!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Good article that show how to create documentation using GhostDoc." TGN: "I have never heare of GhostDoc before, I wonder why. This tool rocks, and so does the article too." Richard Mueller: "Helpful links, but the "See Also" should have links to Wiki articles."

Richard Mueller: "Very well explained. Needs a See Also and/or References." Ed Price: "Great image and explanations from this one in the series that also covers praameters. Could benefit from code formatting and more of an explanation of what the code's doing. Good job!" TGN: "great mashup. and great additions to the TN Wiki"

Ed Price: "Good code snippet and code formatting! Could benefit from a third person voice (less personal), more explaining the code, and a See Also section. It's a helpful addition to our TechNet Wiki community library!" Margriet Bruggeman: "I was just looking for something like this! Great article!" TGN: "nice addition, good work." Richard Mueller: "First person should be avoided. Would it help to use Csv cmdlets?"

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

How to add a Powershell GUI event handler by Brian NadjiwonTGN: "easy to understand and well explained. Good job."Richard Mueller: "Very well explained. Needs a See Also and/or References."Ed Price: "Good walk through with explanations. Could benefit from code formatting. Good article!"

GO: "This is absolutely the gold medal winner! Thank you Dan, for this great article..!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Good walkthrough for getting started with Viso Services." Ed Price: "Incredible article! Great use of images and video!"

Margriet Bruggeman: "Very interesting article, gonna try that one out myself." Ed Price: "Very good article! Good descriptions! Could benefit from a See Also section. Great job!"

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

SharePoint Online: List Relationships Workaround by Dan ChristianGO: "This is a great article to read and share with everyone as this article contains great ressources and information about Liost relationships!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Good article with a nice walk through video." Ed Price: "Another good article! It could benefit from a clearer visual separation from the descriptions and images. This is a great contribution!"

Ed Price: "I love it! This is a fantastically thorough overview of using the Small Basic forum! Great job!" Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is a excellent post by Nonki and a very usefull introduction for beginners to use the MSDN forum. Really good guidance."

Ed Price: "Great formatting on code and images. Great descriptions! Could benefit from a TOC and a See Also section. Great job!" PT: "Thank you for a very useful post on this newer feature. I think others will benefit from this information. The language and graphics are a little rough and can use some polish but the information is very good." RB: "Great explanation that could be the starting point for some automation"

DRC: "This is a very nice article and can be published It discusses about DE normalization which is very much implement in real time scenarios It also provides various reasons why we should consider denormalization. Explanations provided are good but feels little complicated in few part of article (Level 300) " AM: "Nice article but lacks of examples about why denormalization is handy in certain cases." GO: "One of the clearest article on the WIKI. That great. Thank you!" Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions! To quote Samuel from the comments: "Great content and deep examples!" It could benefit from a See Also section. This is a great article!"

GO: "I have been always a huge lover from SQL server. Especially if it comes from Durval Ramos! Thanks buddy! Well written." Ed Price: "I love the code formatting! The images help a lot. And it's a very useful and practical topic with good depth! The References section helps! And it even has a Portuguese version!" Samuel Lester: "" AM: "I suggest incorporating new features like partitioning to raise the level of the article." DRC: "This article provides details about READ-ONLY filegroup"

AM: "It would be helpful having table schema and sample data to be able to compare to other solutions. Also, how does it compare to a simple query using NOT EXISTS and OR operators." GO: "Well written! Thanks" Ed Price: "Short and sweet! It could benefit from a See Also section that points to other Wiki articles. Good case overview and code formatting!"

Jinchun Chen: "Nice. Sometimes, it is asked to include DBCC result in a SP's return result." JS: "Nicely formatted article with a very good coemmnts section within the code. Very helpful for many people." Ed Price: "Great topic, descriptions, code formatting, code commenting, and the resources section is astounding! As Saeid says in the comments: "Great content and deep examples!" Amazing article!" Richard Mueller: "Excellent references, well formated code with comments"

Richard Mueller: "Excellent article with code and references. Try to avoid using firsst person." Jinchun Chen: "Good" JS: "You should also mention the SET DATEFIRST setting." Ed Price: "This is a good article for less advanced T-SQL users, and that's an important audience (possibly the most important)! Great job on a clearly written article that helps with the basics! "

JS: "A good example, could be better by comparing the different options as well as including new techniques like WITH statements. But nice work of showing your way through." Ed Price: "A good topic that's superbly written with descriptions and fantastic code samples! And a link to get the code in the Gallery! That's great!" Richard Mueller: "I needed better explanation the issue and of the relationships between the tables."

JH: "Great article with a lot of code and pictures." Ed Price: "Incredible detail. Great formatting with bullets and bold! And great job linking to the full code on the MSDN Gallery! Good feedback discussion in the comments!"

Ed Price: "Although it's a complicated approach, this is a well-written articel with lots of detail, well-formatted code, and images. Great Additional Resources section to read more about the contexts!" Peter Laker: "How very useful Magnus! Nice work!" KJ: "agree with other comment: seems complicated"

Ed Price: "Good topic, but it would be helpful to break up the code and explain it more. Helpful contributions. Thanks!" Peter Laker: "Sweet tip Manuel! When you haven't got Blend, this is a great tool. Dig deeper here." KJ: "classic"

Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I like to learn new way to do it. I would maybe add a link to how to do it with samba (net ads join ...) I would love to know whats the advantage of powerbroker too over the samba method. (Like does the product offer group policy or such configuration as samba does not at this time)" GL: "I had to figure this out once myself and it wasn't easy, so thanks for the tips." JM: "This is a great article and will be very helpful to System Administrators" Richard Mueller: "Great information with a good explanation of the steps."

Philippe Levesque: "Good information to know." GL: "This could be very useful information. Thanks for providing it!" Richard Mueller: "Good explanation of the steps to downgrade FFL and DFL. We could use discussion of when someone might want to do this." JM: "This is a very good article. Suggestions for improvement: Clean up screenshots, explain why you might want to downgrade, and revise for correct grammar"

JM: "This is a very good article" Richard Mueller: "Excellent concept to measure query performance." Philippe Levesque: "Good method to test out for AD delay in the server. A lot of product just run ping and monitor service to be sure they are not at off to see the health of the server." GL: "This seems useful but I'd like to see a scenario stated for using it."

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

Server 2012/2012 R2 Available CPL Commands by Darshana JayathilakeGL: "I like to use these shortcuts too, thanks for the list!" JM: "This article would be better if you add information on what happens if you run these commands and scenarios where they are useful" Richard Mueller: "Not enough content for a Wiki."

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A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to August's competition.

Hopefully we will see you ALL again in September 2014's listings?

If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's your chance! 😀

Congratulations to all, both winners and contributors! The excitment of seeing both my Visio articles winning is just the boost I needed since I will be convering this topic at the SharePoint Saturday here in the city I live in this weekend. My special
congratulations to both Geetanjali and Vipul!!

"Pyramid base" – Durval, this is perfect thinking! We write these really complicated articles, but we have a lot of people trying to learn the basics, and it’s great to provide strong articles for them too!